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Dr. Minh Vo explained Hutchings’ body had grown tiny new bypasses for minimal blood flow. To restore it to normal, Vo’s team performed an antegrade dissection re-entry; an alternative to conventional angioplasty.

“It’s like if you have a plugged toilet, most people will try to jam through that area,” the interventional cardiologist said. “What we do is we get into the wall.”